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- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780306815850
- Book Title
- Great Arab Conquests : How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Author
- Hugh Kennedy
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- General, Middle East / General
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-10
0306815850
ISBN-13
9780306815850
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60167044
Product Key Features
Book Title
Great Arab Conquests : How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
General, Middle East / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-297360
Reviews
Saudi Aramco World “A lively tour d’horizon of the Muslim world circa 750&Each section’s tight geographical focus and ample bibliography make this a helpful guide.” Claremont Review of Books , Fall 2008 “Comprehensive and scholarly&[Kennedy] is a real historian, doing what a historian ought to do&Kennedy has a good eye for a colorful story.” Military History Quarterly , Fall 2008 “Kennedy’s account is a thoughtful reminder of how even the most epochal world-changing events can turn on the unanticipated intersection of a handful of diverse contingencies.”, Saudi Aramco World “A lively tour d’horizon of the Muslim world circa 750…Each section’s tight geographical focus and ample bibliography make this a helpful guide.” Claremont Review of Books , Fall 2008 “Comprehensive and scholarly…[Kennedy] is a real historian, doing what a historian ought to do…Kennedy has a good eye for a colorful story.” Military History Quarterly , Fall 2008 “Kennedy’s account is a thoughtful reminder of how even the most epochal world-changing events can turn on the unanticipated intersection of a handful of diverse contingencies.”, Saudi Aramco World “A lively tour d’horizon of the Muslim world circa 750…Each section’s tight geographical focus and ample bibliography make this a helpful guide.”Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2008 “Comprehensive and scholarly…[Kennedy] is a real historian, doing what a historian ought to do…Kennedy has a good eye for a colorful story.”Military History Quarterly, Fall 2008 “Kennedy’s account is a thoughtful reminder of how even the most epochal world-changing events can turn on the unanticipated intersection of a handful of diverse contingencies.”, Saudi Aramco World “A lively tour d’horizon of the Muslim world circa 750…Each section’s tight geographical focus and ample bibliography make this a helpful guide.” Claremont Review of Books , Fall 2008 “Comprehensive and scholarly…[Kennedy] is a real historian, doing what a historian ought to do…Kennedy has a good eye for a colorful story.” Military History Quarterly , Fall 2008 “Kennedy’s account is a thoughtful reminder of how even the most epochal world-changing events can turn on the unanticipated intersection of a handful of diverse contingencies.”
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
909.0976701
Synopsis
The success of the Muslim conquests was the product of a unique set of circumstances and the preaching of a simple new monotheistic faith. There were many features of Islam that would have made it approachable to Christians and Jews. It had a Prophet, a Holy Book, established forms of prayer, dietary and family laws. Abraham and Jesus were both great prophets in the Muslim tradition. From the very beginning Islam established itself as a new faith, but it was one that claimed to perfect rather than destroy the older monotheistic ones. It had none of the strangeness of, say, Buddhism. These similarities, this common tradition, must have aided and encouraged conversion. In the final analysis, the success of the Muslim conquest was a result of the unstable and impoverished nature of the whole post-Roman world into which they came, the hardiness and self-reliance of the Bedouin warriors and the inspiration and open quality of the new religion of Islam. Book jacket., Today’s Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today. This is the first popular English-language account in many years of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy’s sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic rule. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, Kennedy offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, fierce battles, and the great clash of civilizations and religions., From a leading expert in Arabic history, an engaging history of the great Islamic expansion that carved out an empire from Spain to Asia
LC Classification Number
DS38.3.K45 2007
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